Garen ARAM Mayhem Build

The Might of Demacia. A below-average pick in ARAM Mayhem on patch 26.21: #153 of 173 champions.

CPatch 26.21FighterTankNo runes in Mayhem

Tier: C
Win rate: 46.2%
Pick rate: 7.1%
Rank: #153 of 173
Games: 1,637,781
Patch: 26.21

How to play Garen in ARAM Mayhem

Garen is a below-average pick in ARAM Mayhem on patch 26.21: tier C, #153 of 173 champions, with a 46.2% win rate over 1,637,781 games.

75% of Garen's damage to champions is physical, so enemy armor is what slows it down. A notable 20% of it is true damage. It soaks 51,383 damage per game and mitigates another 78,086, so it belongs at the front: start fights and absorb the poke your carries can't.

The Crit build, critical strike and attack speed items, is both the most played and the top-ranked path: Stridebreaker, Phantom Dancer and Infinity Edge, with a 47.4% win rate over 587,172 games. For boots, most players buy Berserker's Greaves, but Gluttonous Greaves rank higher.

The cards that do best on Garen are Back To Basics, Hand of Baron and Mad Scientist. Cards built around ability haste fill most of the top of its list, followed by movement speed. Most of its S-tier cards are prismatic, so a prismatic offer is often the pick that shapes the game. Skip Tap Dancer and Firebrand when you can: they do worst on Garen. A pair to look for: Pinball with Hand of Baron.

Take Flash and Mark (94% of players). Max E (Judgment) first, then Q, then W.

Garen ARAM Mayhem build

ARAMKit groups every Garen game by build path. The top-ranked path comes first, with the items most players start with, buy first and add later.

Crit build · top ranked

47.4% win rate · 43% of Garen games · 587,172 games

Start

Long Sword
Guardian's Blade

Core items, in buying order

Stridebreaker
Phantom Dancer
Infinity Edge

Boots on the Crit build for Garen, top ranked first, with the share of players who buy them
Boots, best first	Players
Gluttonous Greaves	7%
Berserker's Greaves	52%
Mercury's Treads	15%

Situational, after the core

Endless Hunger5% buy it
Lord Dominik's Regards29% buy it
The Collector10% buy it
Death's Dance14% buy it
Black Cleaver6% buy it
Mortal Reminder21% buy it

Other build paths

Other Garen build paths with share of games, win rate and core items
Path	Games	Win rate
LethalityHubris, The Collector, Stridebreaker	0.3%	48.9%
BruiserStridebreaker, Death's Dance, Phantom Dancer	10.7%	46.1%
TankHeartsteel, Unending Despair, Warmog's Armor	20.1%	45.5%

Games: the share of all Garen games that went this way.

Most bought items

Phantom Dancer55% of games
Stridebreaker55% of games
Infinity Edge50% of games
Heartsteel34% of games
Berserker's Greaves31% of games
Mercury's Treads23% of games
The Collector18% of games
Lord Dominik's Regards16% of games
Warmog's Armor16% of games
Thornmail16% of games

Best augments for Garen

Every card with enough Garen games, by tier and best first within each tier. Tiers are Garen's own: a card can be S tier here and C tier on another champion. As Riot's policy asks, cards are shown by tier and order only, never with a win rate. Click a card for its own page; the augment tier list ranks them over all champions.

PrismaticBest prismatic cards

GoldBest gold cards

SilverBest silver cards

1Escape PlanTier S
2Stay ResoluteTier A
3Leg DayTier A

S- and A-tier cards for Garen

12 S tier and 34 A tier, best first.

The S- and A-tier augments for Garen in ARAM Mayhem, best first, with their rarity and what they do
Augment	Rarity	Tier	What it does
Back To Basics	Prismatic	Tier S	Your Ultimate Ability is sealed. Gain 35% Ability Damage, Healing, Shielding, and 70 Ability Haste.
Hand of Baron	Prismatic	Tier S	Gain 25% Adaptive Force. Nearby allied minions are greatly empowered.
Mad Scientist	Prismatic	Tier S	On each Revive, you grow large (gaining 30% Adaptive Force and 20% Health) or tiny (gaining 70 Ability Haste and 40% Movement Speed).
Clown College	Prismatic	Tier S	Backstab: You deal (20–35 (by level) +35% Ability Power +50% Bonus Attack Damage) bonus physical damage when striking from behind. Deceive…
Armored Impact	Gold	Tier S	After casting an Ability, your next Attack deals (50–125 (by level) +250% Bonus Armor) bonus physical damage to nearby enemies.
Tooth Fairy	Gold	Tier S	When you deal more than 25% of an enemy champion's Health in less than 2.5 seconds, they drop a Tooth. 4 seconds cooldown per target
Weapon of Destiny	Gold	Tier S	Your first Legendary Item becomes the Weapon of Destiny. When a champion you damaged within the last 3 seconds dies, increase the Weapon of…
Giant Slayer	Prismatic	Tier S	Become tiny, gain 20% Movement Speed, and deal between 10% and 30% bonus damage to champions based on how much larger they are than you.
Escape Plan	Silver	Tier S	Gain a massive (65% Max Health) decaying Shield, decaying 150% Movement Speed, and a decaying shrink effect upon reaching 35% Health (75…
En Passant	Prismatic	Tier S	Periodically identify Vitals on enemy champions. Hitting Vitals with Attacks or Abilities deals an additional 6% + 1.5% per stack max Health…
Ultra Hydra	Prismatic	Tier S	Gain a Tiamat when completing a Hydra Item. QUEST: Possess Titanic Hydra, Ravenous Hydra and Profane Hydra. REWARD: Get Ultra Hydra.
Infinite Recursion	Prismatic	Tier S	Gain 60 Ability Haste, plus 3 Ability Haste per takedown.
Biggest Snowball Ever	Prismatic	Tier A	Gain 100 Ability Haste on Snowball. Your snowball is BIG and will pass through minions. It Slows enemies for 20% for 2 seconds, Knocks Up…
Omni Soul	Prismatic	Tier A	Gain 3 random Dragon Souls.
Stay Resolute	Silver	Tier A	Damaging enemy champions with selected ability grants you 1–3 (by level) Armor or Magic Resistance based on their Adaptive Force Damage…
The Boom and the Bass	Gold	Tier A	After casting an Ability, your next Attack within 6 seconds is faster, deals Melee (50–200 (by level) +50% Bonus Attack Damage+30% Ability…
Blade Waltz	Prismatic	Tier A	Makes you untargetable while you dash at and deal (30–150 (by level) +10% Bonus Attack Damage+6% Ability Power) damage to enemies 8 times…
Sap Magic	Gold	Tier A	Every 20 seconds, your next Attack deals (80–300 (by level) +5% Bonus Health) bonus physical damage and restores (50–250 (by level) +8% Max…
Leg Day	Silver	Tier A	Gain 50 Movement Speed and 50% Slow Resist.
Urf's Champion	Prismatic	Tier A	QUEST: Score 18 takedowns. REWARD: Gain The Golden Spatula.
From Beginning To End	Gold	Tier A	Gain the First Strike and Dark Harvest Keystone Runes. First Strike: When you initiate champion combat, deal 10% extra damage for 3 seconds…
Goliath	Prismatic	Tier A	Become large, gaining 35% Health and 15% Adaptive Force.
Upgrade Immolate	Silver	Tier A	Hollow Radiance and Sunfire Aegis grant 12 Gold per target affected with Immolate. Gain 250 Gold.
Shark Tempest	Gold	Tier A	Sharks circle your Snowball, slowing and dealing 100–200 (by level) magic damage to enemies they pass through. If your Snowball hits a…
Blunt Force	Silver	Tier A	–
Stats on Stats on Stats!	Prismatic	Tier A	Gain 4 Stat Anvils, with a higher chance of Gold and Prismatic Anvils! On your next Augment selection, gain one additional reroll per slot.
Donation	Gold	Tier A	Receive 1750 Gold. Thanks chat!:)
Forged By The Master	Silver	Tier A	Your Item and Augment damage are increased by 45%.
Shark Bait	Gold	Tier A	On death, become Shark Bait. You can take no actions other than moving, which slows nearby enemies by 40%. After a few seconds, a Shark…
Pressure Cooker	Gold	Tier A	Every second, apply an infinitely stacking Burn to nearby enemy champions, dealing (0.5% Max Health) magic damage per second for 2 seconds…
Don't Blink	Silver	Tier A	Gain 1% bonus damage per 10 Movement Speed more you have than the target.
Fruitify	Silver	Tier A	Scoring a Takedown causes the slain champion to explode into 3–6 (by level) Fruit. Fruit restores 6% of your maximum health and restores 6%…
Spin To Win	Silver	Tier A	Your spin Abilities gain 30 Ability Haste and deal 30% more damage, increase to 50% for Ultimates
Prom Queen	Prismatic	Tier A	Every 35 seconds, Autocast a sparkly tiara descends upon you. When it lands, gain Rakan's Ultimate, charming enemies you touch.
Soul Siphon	Gold	Tier A	Gain 25% Crit Chance and 12% Lifesteal on Critical Strikes.
BEES!!!	Gold	Tier A	Every 15–10 (by level) seconds, your next Ability hit against an enemy champion throws a beehive at the target. Upon arriving, the hive…
Goredrink	Silver	Tier A	Gain 15% Omnivamp.
Transmute: Prismatic	Gold	Tier A	Gain a random Augment Tier Prismatic Augment.
Tank It Or Leave It	Silver	Tier A	You can Critically Defend using your Crit Chance (max 50% chance), giving you a chance to reduce damage taken by 20%. Gain 25% Crit Chance.
Stats on Stats!	Gold	Tier A	Gain 3 Stat Anvils, with a higher chance of Gold and Prismatic Anvils!
Stats!	Silver	Tier A	Gain 2 Stat Anvils!
Shrink Engine	Gold	Tier A	Takedowns grant a stack that makes you 4% smaller, grants 8 Ability Haste, and 1% Movement Speed. Lose 65% stacks on death…
Kill Secured	Silver	Tier A	Gain 60% Movement Speed towards enemies below 40% health.
Zealot	Silver	Tier A	Gain (25%+5% Ability Power) Critical Strike Chance and (35%+5% Ability Power) Attack Speed.
Dive Bomber	Silver	Tier A	Explodes when you die, dealing 20% of the target's max Health as true damage to nearby enemies.
Transmute: Chaos	Prismatic	Tier A	Gain 2 random Augment Tier Augments.

Average on Garen
53 cards, best first

Below average on Garen
30 cards, best first

Weakest on Garen
12 cards, best first

Best first augment for Garen

Your first card decides the early fights, and a card that is great as a first pick can be a weak fourth. ARAMKit ranks Garen's cards for each pick on its own; these are the top five per pick, with their tier in that pick. For the first pick, Armored Impact, Back To Basics and Ultra Hydra come out on top.

The best augments for Garen in each pick of an ARAM Mayhem game, best first, with their tier in that pick
#	First pick	Second pick	Third pick	Fourth pick
1	Armored ImpactTier S	Bread And ButterTier S	Hand of BaronTier S	Back To BasicsTier S
2	Back To BasicsTier S	Back To BasicsTier S	Mad ScientistTier S	Mad ScientistTier S
3	Ultra HydraTier S	Clown CollegeTier S	Back To BasicsTier S	Hand of BaronTier S
4	Tooth FairyTier S	Mad ScientistTier S	Clown CollegeTier S	Giant SlayerTier S
5	Clown CollegeTier S	Stay ResoluteTier S	The Boom and the BassTier S	Escape PlanTier S

Strong card pairs

Two cards that do especially well together on Garen, best pair first.

Summoner spells and skill order

Summoner spells

Flash + Mark94% of players · 46.4% win rate
Ghost + Mark1% of players · 46.0% win rate
Flash + Ghost5% of players · 44.4% win rate

Skill order

EJudgment
QDecisive Strike
WCourage

Max E first. 68% of players use this order (47.2% win rate); put points in R whenever you can.

Garen in an average Mayhem game

Averages per game over every game on this patch.

K / D / A: 11.4 / 12.2 / 20.8
KDA: 2.90
Damage to champions: 37,469
Damage taken: 51,383
Self-mitigated: 78,086
Healing on allies: 2
Shielding on allies: 0
Crowd control: 39 s
Kill participation: 59%
Game length: 17:07

Damage type

Physical 75%Magic 5%True 20%

Questions and answers

What is the best Garen build in ARAM Mayhem?

On patch 26.21 ARAMKit ranks the Crit build first for Garen: Stridebreaker, Phantom Dancer and Infinity Edge. It is also the most played build.

What are the best augments for Garen in ARAM Mayhem?

The S-tier cards for Garen, best first: Back To Basics, Hand of Baron, Mad Scientist, Clown College and Armored Impact. The full list by tier is on this page.

Is Garen good in ARAM Mayhem?

Garen is tier C on patch 26.21, #153 of 173 champions, with a 46.2% win rate over 1.6 million games. That makes it a below-average pick in ARAM Mayhem right now.

What is the best first augment for Garen in ARAM Mayhem?

For Garen's first pick on patch 26.21: Armored Impact, Back To Basics, Ultra Hydra, Tooth Fairy and Clown College, best first. Cards rank differently in later picks; the table on this page has all four.

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ARAM Mayhem tier list
Every champion by tier on patch 26.21.
ARAM Mayhem augment tier list
Every card from S to D over all champions.
All Mayhem builds
Pick a champion from the full list.
ARAM Mayhem rules
Augment levels, rerolls and why there are no runes.
ARAM Mayhem guide
How the mode, the cards and the picks work.
Garen counters
Its lane matchups on Summoner's Rift.
ARAM Mayhem overlay
The card picker and build in the app.

Source: ARAMKit, used with permission. Patch 26.21, 23,177,263 ARAM Mayhem games, data of October 28, 2026. Riot keeps Mayhem games out of its public match API, so these aggregates come from ARAMKit. Card tiers are shown without win rates, as Riot's developer policy asks.